Acer Inches Past Dell In Notebook Sales

Acer has long been a company to sell many notebooks, but their effect on the market lately has been staggering – and since acquiring Gateway, things have only been going up. According to new reports by DisplaySearch, Acer sold 3.11 million notebooks in Q4/06, but had numbers skyrocket to 5.25 million for Q4/07, effectively putting them ahead of Dell.

HP is still the company to beat, however, as they sold 6.66 million units in Q4/07, a full 27% more than Acer. This comes as a personal surprise to me, as I know numerous people who own Acer notebooks, but not one owns HP. Retail distribution is sure to help a lot here.

The market is clearly dominated by these big three, however, as their combined totals equal 50%. Toshiba falls behind Dell by almost half of the units moved, while Lenovo sits in fifth with 2 million units sold. ASUS moved 1.04 million last quarter while Apple sits in the ninth position with 0.969 million units moved… still an impressive figure for a single quarter.

Acer’s acquisitions of rival PC makers Gateway and Packard Bell enabled it to beat Dell out of the second place spot on the DisplaySearch list. However, DisplaySearch points out that Acer was able to dramatically narrow the gap between it and Dell with Acer branded notebooks alone.

Source: DailyTech